{"id":39689,"date":"2021-02-23T00:50:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T00:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/the-perils-of-non-disclosure-china-cloned-and-used-nsa-zero-day-exploit-for-years-before-it-was-made-public\/"},"modified":"2021-02-23T00:50:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T00:50:23","slug":"the-perils-of-non-disclosure-china-cloned-and-used-nsa-zero-day-exploit-for-years-before-it-was-made-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/the-perils-of-non-disclosure-china-cloned-and-used-nsa-zero-day-exploit-for-years-before-it-was-made-public\/","title":{"rendered":"The perils of non-disclosure? China ‘cloned and used’ NSA zero-day exploit for years before it was made public"},"content":{"rendered":"

A zero-day exploit said to have been developed by the NSA was cloned and used by Chinese government hackers on Windows systems years before the cyber-weapon was leaked online, it is claimed.<\/p>\n

Check Point put out a report<\/a> on Monday digging into Chinese malware it calls Jian, and argues persuasively this particular software nasty was spawned sometime around 2014 from NSA exploit code that eventually leaked<\/a> online in 2017.<\/p>\n